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Philip Akin (born April 18, 1950) is a Canadian actor who has been active for over thirty years in stage, film, and television. He has had featured roles in major American films such as The Sum of All Fears, S.W.A.T., and Get Rich or Die Tryin’. He has also done much voice work, including voicing the character of Bishop for the X-Men animated series and Tripp Hansen in Monster Force.
Akin was born in Kingston, Jamaica as a middle brother of five sons. His parents moved to Oshawa, Ontario in 1953, and he and his brothers followed suit the next year. He has lived there ever since. Shortly after attending high school, Akin attended Toronto’s Ryerson Theatre School. In 1975, he became the school’s first acting graduate, landing a role just a few days later in a Shaw Festival production of Caesar and Cleopatra.
In 1983 Akin began studying Yoshinkan Aikido and is presently a 5th degree black belt in that art. He has also trained in Jing Mo Kung Fu and Tai Chi Chuan.
Akin first came to prominence in the early 1980s when he performed on the zany comedy series Bizarre. Other recognizable roles include computer expert Norton Drake from War of the Worlds, a Canadian television series that went off the air in 1990. His recurring role as Charlie DeSalvo in Highlander: The Series has also brought him much recognition. In Shake Hands with the Devil he portrays Kofi Annan, then United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations. In 2007, Akin will be performing at the Stratford Festival of Canada, a prestigious summer-long celebration of theatre held each year in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. He is cast in the title role of William Shakespeare’s Othello, and also in the role of Crooks in the Festival’s rendition of John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men. Phil Akin can also be seen in a long list of guest appearances on television series filmed in Canada, for example: F/X: The Series, Mutant X, and most recently, Flashpoint (2008).
Akin is a founding member and currently the Artistic Director of the Obsidian Theatre Company, a Canadian theatre company comprising seasoned actors of African descent, devoted to the work of blacks. Akin is divorced, with one child.
Most Popular Philip Akin Trailers
Total trailers found: 81
31 May 2002
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation.
30 January 2014
In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology.
05 June 2004
When Kelly and Michael decide to get married, they want to have an off-beat wedding without all the traditional glitz.
12 January 1999
Police Inspector Paul Fein copes with family troubles while also dealing with the possibility of advancement to police chief.
09 November 2005
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
05 July 1979
The hunter becomes the prey as a Vietnam veteran (Perry King) tries to ferret out the real culprit after being tagged as the prime suspect in the murders of his former Army pals.
15 April 2002
Eight strangers awaken with no memory, in a puzzling cube-shaped room where the laws of physics do not always apply.
06 August 2000
A divorced female marine officer with two small children begins an affair with a senior officer.
08 July 1986
Based on a true story, a serial killer abducts his latest victim from a mall and assaults her. Confused by her atypical reaction, he doesn't kill her, but instead takes her along as he continues on his killing spree.
17 June 2005
Holly is tired of moving every time her mom Jean breaks up with yet another second-rate guy. To distract her mother from her latest bad choice, Holly conceives the perfect plan for the perfect man, an imaginary secret admirer who will romance Jean and boost her self-esteem.
13 September 1996
Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows.
23 April 1999
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.
09 November 2007
A businesswoman finds herself locked with a unhinged security guard in a parking garage after getting stuck working late on Christmas Eve.
31 January 2009
Columnist Peyton MacGruder befriends a reader who sent her a note that inspires Peyton to reconsider the choices she's made and her reluctance to accept her boyfriend's marriage proposal.
21 February 1994
Immortal Xavier St. Cloud has mortals shoot his Immortal opponents so he can take their heads. Joe tells Duncan about the killings to warn him, and soon St.
08 September 2005
A case of mistaken identity forces a Federal agent and a dental supply salesman to team up as they speed through the streets of Detroit to pull off a sting operation and solve the murder of the agent's former partner.
04 December 2000
A woman intensely believes her husband will recover from a coma during the holiday season.
05 March 1988
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
03 December 2006
Matt, a 19-year-old student, goes to the hospital to see his newborn son. He learns his girlfriend plans to put the baby up for adoption without his consent, so he takes his son to his grandmother's house to fight for custody.
12 May 1999
A young woman (Crystal Bernard) aware of her father's (James Brolin) affair with another woman becomes convinced of his guilt after her mother (Dee Wallace Stone) is found murdered in this fact-based movie.
25 August 1989
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past.
27 October 1982
Dr. R. Adams Cowley, the Baltimore physician who pioneered medicine's first shocktrauma unit, fights hospital bureaucracy to gain recognition for his center.
09 March 1994
A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.
13 April 1984
A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr.
12 August 1997
A "mockumentary" about Elvis's real-life trip to the White House to become a federal marshal under tA
02 November 1996
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control.
02 February 1990
Barmaid Stella Claire and blueblood Stephen Dallas have very little in common -- except they've fallen in love.
16 March 2003
Growing up poor on the streets of New Jersey, Frank Siena (Danny Nucci) has little hope of realizing his dream of becoming a doctor.
16 April 1991
F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He asks Rollie to help catch a killer.
06 May 2001
When a key witness in a case of corruption is killed in courts all suspicion falls on Judge Armando Acosta.
07 September 1998
After a woman's husband dies while jogging in the park, the young widow's deep grief helps to awaken his ghost.
10 February 2002
A kid named Reggie Reynolds is a high school student who is good in the classroom but not so good on the basketball court.
18 July 2003
For teenager Halley, love seems like an alien concept. Her mother is divorcing her father, who is dating a younger woman Halley can't stand.
06 September 1997
Don Vito Leoni, the Godfather, is clinically depressed. The world has changed and he hasn't. He'd like to retire, but if he left the "family business" to his two idiot sons, they'd be dead in a minute.
25 April 1998
Jessica, a teenage girl obsessed with money but greedy when it comes to sharing it, is swept away into a surreal small town environment and learns the hard way that being greedy gets you nothing but trouble.
25 September 1987
While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency room where the doctors diagnose him as suffering from an unknown bacteria, and a strange parasite which emerges from his mouth as a large slimy wormlike creature.
08 August 1996
An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.
28 August 2000
A successful businesswoman faces divorce and a custody battle after her unemployed husband accuses her of neglecting their children, forcing her to confront the consequences of her demanding career.
13 March 2010
Called "the longest running con in FBI history," Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, the man that people knew as "Clark Rockefeller" had brilliantly impersonated numerous people, ranging from a talk show host to a Pentagon Advisor before ultimately claiming to be an heir to the famous Rockefeller family.
18 January 2000
A teacher is arrested and jailed for raping her 13-year-old student, and twice gives birth to his child.
12 January 2002
An estate agent is forced into witness protection soon after selling the apartment of a girl who died in suspicious circumstances.
13 January 1984
A moderately successful fashion model meets a wealthy entrepreneur who's determined to make her a superstar by controlling every aspect of her personal and professional life, but she's strong-minded and resistant to his methods.
03 April 2007
A group of utility workers are trapped in a series of tunnels which, unfortunately, contain a scientist mutated by his own creation.
23 July 1998
A gang of thieves break into a top secret government research centre and steal a deadly virus. Mach 1, a top secret special operations team, is called in to recover it.
14 February 1999
A black woman is reunited with her white birth mother after being given up for adoption.
24 January 2001
A mother and her two children are stuck in a mall during a power outage while police hunt for a killer.
27 March 1987
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes while at the same time having to deal with his girlfriend's mental problems, which are gradually deteriorating into a split personality.
09 October 1998
A detective tries to remain loyal to his partner, and his best friend - a mobster.
20 October 1996
An idealistic talk show producer clashes with her ratings obsessed boss on a story involving a young prostitute.
04 January 1999
A boy brings home his new girlfriend. However, Mom is sure that something isn't right about her, which starts a fight with her son.
16 February 1997
When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under control.
20 October 2018
A helicopter mom follows her daughter to college and lands a job on campus. When she meets a charismatic professor, she learns more about herself and discovers a life of her own.
12 September 1999
This series illustrates the life and career of P.T. Barnum, America's greatest showman and promoter. Starting as a young man who managed an old woman who was supposedly George Washington's nursemaid, we see his career as he finds success promoting curiosities and attractions with panache and a judicious mix of truth and creativity, whether it be promoting his museum or characters like the midget General Tom Thumb.
25 December 1998
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.
06 December 2005
A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx.
01 September 1987
A cop tries to prevent a gang of extortionists from blowing up New York City with nitroglycerin.
01 October 2005
An irreverent and hilarious spin on opera, domestic drama and the hallowed institutions of love and marriage, Burnt Toast is an hour-long television opera comprised of a series of eight comic operas each depicting a different stage of romantic love.
21 December 2002
Angela and Travis consider having sex for the first time just as their high school starts up an abstinence education program.
17 July 1987
Marine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two newly delivered helicopters in his squadron have crashed because a defective part, a C-ring, has been made of a weaker, less expensive alloy.
20 September 1992
A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.
